Mahler Pioneers

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Release Date: 28th Jul 2023
Catalogue No: ARIADNE5022-2
Label: Somm
Length: 2 hours 34 minutes

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Excerpt, Mahler: Das klagende Lied

Work length33:14

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Dame Joan Sutherland, Norma Procter, Peter Pears
Goldsmiths Choral Union, London Symphony Orchestra
Walter Goehr

II. Del Spielmann

Track length15:30

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III. Hochzeitsstück

Track length17:44

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Mahler: Symphony No. 10 in F sharp major - Adagio

Work length23:06

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BBC Symphony Orchestra
Hermann Scherchen

Stokowski: Interview (1)

Work length22:44

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Leopold Stokowski (narrator)

Mahler: Symphony No. 4

Work length57:35

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Teresa Stich-Randall
London Symphony Orchestra
Walter Goehr

I. Bedächtig, nicht eilen

Track length18:15

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II. In gemächlicher Bewegung, ohne Hast

Track length9:33

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III. Ruhevoll, poco adagio

Track length20:11

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IV. Sehr behaglich

Track length9:36

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Alfred Friese: Interview (2)

Work length18:03

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Alfred Friese (narrator)

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SOMM Recordings announces Volume 1 of Mahler Pioneers, a major addition to the Mahler catalogue with first commercial releases of historic performances of Das klagende Lied, Symphony No.4, and the Adagio from the Tenth Symphony. The two-disc set also features interviews with conductor Leopold Stokowski and former New York Philharmonic Orchestra timpanist Alfred Friese about their memories of Mahler in rehearsal. Recorded live in london's Royal Festival hall on 13 May 1956, Das klagende Lied is heard in its first-ever British performance with Walter Goehr conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, Goldsmiths' Choral Union and three luxury soloists: soprano Joan Sutherland - most probably the only known document of her singing Mahler- tenor Peter Pears, and contralto Norma Procter. Symphony No.4 was performed by Goehr, again with the LSO, and soprano Teresa Stich-Randall on 9 February 1960 as part of that year's Mahler centenary celebrations. Before the year was out, the committed Mahlerian Goehr was dead. The Tenth Symphony's Adagio dates from 21 November 1948, with Hermann Scherchen conducting the BBc Symphony Orchestra, anticipating Scherchen's recorded survey of Mahler's symphonies in the 1950s. Two revealing, never before issued interviews with Stokowski in 1970 and Friese in 1962, offer candid recollections of encounters with Mahler. Mahler Pioneers has been curated by historic recordings specialist Jon Tolansky, who also provides insightful and authoritative booklet notes.

Mahler Pioneers

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